Raffaele Marciello, winner of the most recent edition of the race on the Formula 3 Grand Prix weekend in 2019, will be joined by fellow Mercedes driver Maro Engel, Porsche’s Laurens Vanthoor, BMW racer Augusto Farfus and Edoardo Mortara on the 21-car grid on the sixth running of the event on 18/19 November.
The World Cup for GT3 machinery on the Macau Guia street circuit has been revived for this year, along with the F3 GP, after a hiatus resulting from the COVID pandemic and travel restrictions into China.
Marciello will race for the Landgraf team with which he won last year’s ADAC GT Masters title.
Engel, who claimed the inaugural World Cup in 2015, will turn out in a Mercedes-AMG GT3 run by the Craft-Bamboo team with which he won the Macau GT3 race last year when it did not have World Cup status.
Vanthoor, who won the race in 2016 for Audi in dramatic fashion when he finished the World Cup final on his roof, will drive a Porsche 911 GT3 R for the Toro Racing team, a regular in Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.
Edoardo Mortara, whose 2017 World Cup victory counts as one of six across the F3 and GT3 races, will drive an Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II for the pan-Asian Absolute squad.
The German Rowe Racing team will field a BMW M4 GT4 for Augusto Farfus, who took World Cup honours in 2018.
Source: Autosport